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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the clean tech space.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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